perspiratory

comparative more perspiratory · superlative most perspiratory

1. datedOf or pertaining to perspiration.

   The perspiratory glands of the skin are scattered everywhere throughout the integument, being most abundant on the anterior portions of the body.

   1859, John Call Dalton, A Treatise on Human Physiology

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   The true skin is highly sensitive, being supplied with countless nerve-fibres and endings. It is also highly vascular, being supplied by those innumerable tiny blood-vessels called capillaries, though they are far finer than any hair, of which I spoke just now. It contains the perspiratory or sweat-glands, the sebaceous or oil-glands, and the roots of the hair, which are fed by the latter.

   1885, Ada Sarah Ballin, The Science of Dress in Theory and Practice